Toy.



No. 881,907. PATENTED SEPT.} 25, 1906. 0. W. TOWNSEND.

TOY.

APPLICATION FILED IAN.13, 190G;

CORT W. TOWNSEND, OF NEW PHILADELPHIA, OHIO.

' TOY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 25, 1906.

Application filed January 13, 1906. Serial No. 295,957.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CORT WV. TOWNSEND, a citizen of the United States,residing at New Philadelphia, in the county of Tuscarawas and State ofOhio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toys; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being bad to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specification, and to the figures of referencemarked thereon, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is avertical section showing a side view of two images. Fig. 3 is a viewshowing a single image pivotally mounted and illustrating theball-dropping cup in sections. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of aportion of the base and illustrating the ball-receiving cup or pocket,also showing a portion of one of the standards properly connected.

The present invention has relation to toys; and it consists in the novelarrangement hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in theclaims.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawings.

In the accompanying drawings, 1 represents the base, which is formed ofa size suflicient to hold in proper upright position the parallelstandards 2, which parallel standards are securely attached in anyconvenient and well-known manner to the base 1; but I prefer to attachthe standards 2 as hereinafter described. The standards 2 may be formedof any desired height, reference being had to the number of imagesdesigned to be employed. The images 3, as shown, represent the humanbody; but of course other forms may be used without departing from thenature of my invention. The images 3 are pivotally mounted upon bars 4or the bars 4 pivotally connected to the standards 2 as desired, as itwill be understood that the only object to be accomplished is to providemeans for rotatably mounting the images 3, and of course it isimmaterial so far as their present invention is concerned as to whetheror not the images rotate upon the bars or the bars rotate with theimages. To the top or upper ends of the standards 2 is attached in anyconvenient or well-known manner or formed integral therewith theball-dropping cup 5, which cup is provided With the aperture 6. Theimages 3 are so balanced that their normal positions will be thatillustrated in the four lowermost ones in Fig. 1 and Figs. 2 and 3. Theupper or head portion of the images 3 are each provided with the pocketor recesses 7, which recesses are provided with the inclined bottoms 8,which inclined bottoms are provided with the flanges 9, which flangesmay be formed integral with the inclined bottoms 8, or the flanges 9 maybe the inner surface of the head of the image, as desired.

For the purpose of causing the images to rotate a ball 10 is employed,which ball is dropped in the cup 5 and falls through the aperture 6 andinto the recess 7 of the uppermost image, which ball rolls down theincline 7 until it reaches the flange 9, said ball being of such aweight that it will overbalance the image, and thereby impart a rotarymovement, the ball remaining in the recess until the image has againcome into a vertical position or made a half-revolution, at which timethe ball 10 drops through the aperture 11 and falls into the recess 7 inthe next lowermost image, which movements are continued until all theimages have been rotated and the ball finds its way into the pocket 12.

,It will be understood that after the ball 10 has passed from therecesses the then upper end of the image will be the heavier, and by themomentum imparted to the image by their half-revolutions they willcontinue their movements until a complete and full revolution has beenmade, thereby causing the im-' ages to assume their normal position,after which the same ball or another ball may be dropped in the cup 5and the movement of the images repeated. It will be understood that theupper portions of the recesses 7 should be partially closed, leavingonly the aperture 11 through which the balls 10 are to pass, and thecurvature of the flanges 9 and the portions of the heads of the imagesbe-- ing such that the balls Wlll not pass through the apertures 11until the images have completed their half-revolution, so that the ball10 will find its way into the recess of the next lowermost image. Theparallel standards 2 are provided at their bottom or lower ends with thetangs 13, which tangs are passed through suitable apertures in the base1 and bent, as illustrated in Fig. 4. This is simply mechanical, as anyother way may be employed to connect the standards.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. In a toy of the class described, animage pivotally mounted and provided with a re cess, said recess havingan inclined bottom and an aperture of a size less than the dimensions ofthe recess, and a cup provided with an aperture, said aperture locateddirectly above the normal position of the image, substantially as andfor the purpose specified.

2. In a toy of the class described, a series of images provided withrecessed heads, and apertures formed of a size less than the dimensionsof the recesses, said .images pivotally mounted in a vertical plane anda dropcup located above the normal positions of the CORT W. TOWVNSEND.

Witnesses:

CHARLES H. SGHWAB, E. N. FAIR.

